It was vital - for next year - for Mayo to draw today, relegation (literally a kick of the ball either way) wouldn’t have changed things for this summer anyway but if things go pear shaped this summer followed by division two the cracks would be too big to cover over.

At the end of the day the right two went down to division two, and the team very marginally better than them just about clung in, so it was very fair in the end.